Adam Harpaz is a Byron Bay-based musician who paints pictures of hope for his listeners through heartfelt performances and lyrical integrity.
Harpaz has been featured on Triple J, performed at major festivals and has sold out intimate shows across the country. After the recent successes of a second European tour and reaching over a million streams on Spotify, Adam is busy, busy, busy as he continues to record, co-write, produce and tour.
Thursday 5pm at The Levee, Lismore. Free show
Marshall OKell has emerged with a new level of addictive, heart and mind-altering musical energy. This guy doesn’t just make music – he’s a roaring powerhouse of a man, whose music will get under your skin, into your blood and course through you like a visceral super-high of the likes you won’t come down from easily.
Tuesday from 7pm at The Northern. Free show
Listening to Jimmy Dowling is like stumbling across a lovingly built artefact in some out-of-the-way store – something you can cherish but which others might never have the joy of witnessing – and, if you were wavering, he can make you believe in the power of music again.
Friday from 7.30pm at the Tintenbar Hall. Tickets $20 from tintenbarupfront.com
Francis ‘Frank’ Roberts spent his entire life fighting. A boxing champion, he was the first Aboriginal Olympian, and respected for his contribution to the ‘sweet science’ in Australia. Outside the ring, the man they called ‘Honest Frank’ fought tirelessly for his family and culture.
Join Rhoda Roberts AO for an evening of personal storytelling as she shares tales of her first cousin Frank, a Widjabul Wia-bal and Githabul man from Cubawee.
My Cousin Frank – Saturday 2pm and 7.30pm at the Star Court Theatre, Lismore. Tickets $30-$59 at norpa.sales.ticketsearch.com
Leigh James sings and plays guitar effortlessly, as if music was as natural to him as breathing.
James just loves to make beautiful music, whether writing or interpreting other musos and styles.
Be entertained by one of the finest singer/songwriter/guitarists on the North/Gold Coasts – if there’s a great lyric and melody and a great groove to a tune you’re thinking of, try him – he may just know it.
Sunday from 3pm at Salt Bar, Kingscliff. Free show
The Sunshine Club tells the story of Frank Doyle, an Aboriginal serviceman who has come home from World War II to find that although the wider world may have changed, attitudes back home in Brisbane are just the same.
This energetic and engaging musical play has a variety of music styles and is written and directed by proud Noonuccal Nuugi man Wesley Enoch AM, an acclaimed creative force in Australian Theatre.
Live theatre on Friday at the Byron Theatre at 6.30pm. Tickets from byroncentre.com.au
The Big Bike Film Night is on a mission – bringing the best cycling short films from around the world together for you!
Their 2024 collection (would you believe their tenth collection!) has a breath-taking range of short movies that are original, informative, entertaining and most importantly of all – inspirational; all celebrating the fun, adventure, and joy that cycling enables, with human-powered stories.
Thursday from 7pm at the Brunswick Picture House. Tickets $21 to $30 from eventfinda.com.au
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